After graduation from Harvard College and an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps Reserves, Jim Guy Tucker went to South Vietnam in 1965 and 1967 as a civilian war correspondent, afterwards publishing a book – Arkansas Men at War.
Jim Guy Tucker has served Arkansas as Attorney General, 2nd District US Congressman, Lieutenant Governor and as the 43rd Governor.
The Vietnam gallery at MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History features the photography of two Arkansans, Bruce Wesson and Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Known as the Boys from Hall because they graduated from Little Rock’s Hall High School in 1961, these two Arkansans chronicled the war through photography. In addition to the photographs taken during the Vietnam War by Governor Tucker in the museum’s Vietnam gallery, the M-2 rifle that he carried during the war is also on display.